Paper-bottle-bottoming machine.



H. D. CAYLOR 1 W'. A. SCOTT.

PAPER BOTTLEBOTTOMING MACHINE.

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APPLICATION FILED NOV- 9, 1912.

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PAPER BOTTLE BOTTOMING MACHINE.

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HARRY D. CAYLOR AND WILLIAM ALLISON SCOTT, 0F INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, ASSIGNORS TO NATIONAL CONING MACHINERY COMPANY, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, A CORPORATION OF INDIANA.

PAPER-BOTTLE-BOTTOMIN G MACHINE.

Application filed November 9, 1912.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, HARRY D. CAYLOR and VILLIAM ALmsoN Sco'r'r, citizens of the United States, residing at Indianapolis, in the county of Marion and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Paper-Bottle-Bottoming Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to machines for making paper bottles, and the object of the invention is to provide automatic mechanism which will cut the blanks for the bottoms of the bottles, form the bottoms of the desired size with downwardly projecting marginal flanges, coat the inner wall of the bottle with glue where the bottom is to be secured, insert the flanged bottom and turn the lower edges of the sides of the bottle in around the flange of the bottom.

Another object of the invention is to provide means for rendering the mechanism inoperative when the machine for any reason fails to present the proper incomplete bottle to any of the bottom forming and affixing devices of the machine.

The object of the invention also is to provide a machine which will automatically feed the bottle sides to the Various bottom forming and aflixing devices; which will form and aflix the bottoms and then discharge the bottle with the bottom completed; and to provide such a machine which will automatically repeat these operations continuously.

The objects of the invention are accomplished by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a top plan view of the complete machine. Fig. 2 is a view in side elevation of the left side of the machine. Fig. 3 is a rear end elevation. 'Fig. 4 is a right side elevation. Fig. 5 is a front elevation. Fig. 5 is a fragment, on a larger scale, of the sun and planet gear shown in Fig. 5. Fig. 6 is a detail in vertical section on the line 6-6 of Fig. 1, showing the driving connec Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 21, 19 5.

Serial Ito. "0,353.

mechanism for seating the conical bottle sides in pockets in a rotary carrier wheel preparatory to the formation and attachment to the sides of the bottle-bottoms, the view being on a larger scale than isshown in Fig. 6. Fig. 9 is a like View of the same parts with the clutch open and showing the clutch operating cams and levers in dotted lines. Fig. 10 is a cross section of the main driving shaft on the line 10-10 of Fig. 9, looking into the fixed half of the clutch. Fig. 11 is a vertical section on the line 11-11 of Fig. 6, on a larger scale, showing the cone-seating mechanism. Fig. 12 is a side view of the mechanism shown in Fig. 11. Fig. 13 is a section on the line 13-13 of Fig. 11. Fig. 14 is a fragment in vertical section on the line 14-14 of Fig. 6, additionally illustrating the cone-seating mechanism. Fig. 15 is a vertical section on the line 15-15 of Fig. 1, illustrating on a larger scale the shock absorber on the counter-shaft through which power is transmitted from the main shaft to the large .cone carrying wheel. Fig. 16 is a side view of the mechanism shown in Fig. 15. Fig. 17 is a fragment of the upper part of the cone-seating mechanism, looking from the line 17-17 of Figs. 1 and 7. Fig. 18 is a plan view of Fig. 17, and Fig. 19 is a section thereof on the line 19-19 of Fig. 17. Fig. 20 is a fragment in vertical section on the line 17-17 of Fig. 1, on a larger scale, looking in the opposite direction from that indicated by the arrows, and showing the mechanism for applying glue to the inner walls of the cones, the gluing wheel being in the position to take a supply of glue preparatory to entering a cone. Fig. 20 is a transverse sec tion of the yoke-stem shown in Fig. 20, illustrating the universal joint at the end of the stem. Fig. 21 is a section on the line 21-21 of Fig. 6, showing the cam-wheel for raising and lowering the glue-wheel out and in the glue pot. Thiscam is shown in dotted lines in Fig. 20. Fig. 22 is a plan View of the glue supplying mechanism which is illustrated in Fig. 20. Fig. 23'is a view of theouter end (next the cone) of the mechanism for operating the glue-wheel. Fig. 24 is a fragment in vertical section on the line 24-24 of Fig. 22, showing the intermittent gears and shock absorber operating the gluewheel. Fig. 25 is a fragment in vertical end view of the auxiliary glue-shaft pivot bearing. F ig.' 28 is a longitudinal section on the line 2828 of Fig. 27. Fig. 29 is an elevation on a larger scale of the mechanism shown in Fig. 3 for punching blanks .from which the bottoms of the bottles are to be formed, and for flanging the blanks and depositing them in place in the bottles.

Fig. 29 is a fragment in vertical longitudinal section of the blank and bottom forming and placing unch and follower taken on the line 29 0 Fig. 1. Fig. 30 is a section on the line 3030 of Fig. 29. Fig. 31 is a view on a larger scale of the paper feeding mechanism opposite the arrow 31 of Fig. 29. Fig. 32 is a section on the line 32-32 of Fig. 31. Fig. 33 is a vertical section on the line 3333 of Fig. 1, showing the mechanism for spinning the bottom of the cone inwardly under the flange of the bottle-bottom. This view shows the mechanism on a larger scale than same is shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 34 is an end view looking in the direction of the arrow 34 of Fig. 33. Fig. 35 is a vertical section on the line 35-35 of Fig. 33. Fig. 36 is a view in front elevation of the spinner wheel shown in Fig. 33, and Fig. 37 is a section on the line 37T37 of Fig. 36. Fig. 38 is a vertical section on the line 3838 of Fig. 1, showing the bottle discharging device in its set position ready to discharge, and Fig. 39 shows the same device after it has been discharged and before it is reset, and Fig. 40 is a vertical section on the line 40-40 of Fig. 1, illustrating the carrier for conveying cones to and for positively discharging them into the machine.

Like characters of reference indicate like parts throughout the several views of the drawings.

The main frame-work of the machine comprises a pair of approximately square I- beam frames A and B supported one below the other, as shown, by legs 0 at each of the four corners. Mounted upon the frame A on standards D is a table E. The standards D and table E carry parts of the operative mechanism of the machine, as will be pointed out in detail hereafter.

Mounted in suitable journals upon the frame A is a shaft 1 extending transversely of the machine, and mounted on shaft 1 within the frame A and adjacent its left side is a large cone-carrying wheel 2, having an annular series of truncated conical holders, here shown as 16 in number, each of which is adapted to receive an incomplete truncated conical bottle, the bottom for which is to be punched out of paper by this machine, formed with an annular depending flange, inserted with glue to retain it, in the unfinished conical bottle and the edges of the bottle turned inwardly around the flange of the newly inserted bottom.

Supported at the rear of the machine by suitable brackets F is a transverse shaft G on which a pulley g is mounted, and to which power from any suitable source is delivered by means of a belt (not shown). Mounted on the shaft G is a pinion h, and between the latter and the pulley g is a friction-clutch I, operated by a bell-crank lever J pivoted to an extension from bracket One arm of the lever J is extended to the rear to form the hand-lever j and the other arm of the bell-crank lever is connected with a hand-lever M at the opposite or front side of the machine by means of a connecting-rod m. By this means the operation of the machine may be stopped from either front or rear.

Supported by brackets F below the shaft G is a shaft H parallel with the shaft G, and mounted thereon is a large spur gear wheel 11. which meshes with the pinion h. The lower shaft H has a bevel-wheel N which meshes with the corresponding wheel 0 mounted on a shaft 3 extending longitudinally of the machine. The shaft 3 is the one from which the several devices for performing the successive operations here contemplated, are driven, and will hereafter be referred to as the main driving shaft.

Supported in journals which are carried by the lower frame B is a counter-shaft 4. This shaft 4 is intermittently driven from the shaft 3 by mechanism hereinafter to be described, and it is drivingly connected with the cone-carrying wheel 2 by means of a pinion 5 which engages with suitably formed teeth in the periphery of the wheel 2.

Mounted on the shaft 4 under the shaft 3 is a toothed-wheel 6, and mounted on the shaft 3, above it, is a wheel 7 having wormteeth around a portion of its periphery to drivingly engage the teeth on the wheel 6, and having a channel 8 extending around the remainder or untoothed periphery of said wheel into which the tooth of the wheel 6 which is in mesh when it is reached by the channel 8 enters thereby arresting the travel of wheel 6 and of shaft 4 until the worm at the other end of the groove is reached, and thereupon the driving of the wheel 6 will be resumed. This provides the intermittent drive for the cone-carrying wheel 2 which is a pair of Wheels 10, with suitably shaped peripheries, suitably supported, as shown, and arranged to discharge the cones in series by gravity opposite the inner side of the wheel 2, as shown in Fig. 1, at a level between the axis of wheel 2 and its top periphery, as seen in Figs. 2 and 4. The shaft 11 on which the inner wheel 10 is mounted has a bevel-Wheel (see Fig. 4) which meshes with a pinion on a shaft 12, and the latter is drivingly connected in a similar manner with the main driving shaft 3.

Suitable ones of the links of the carrier 9 are provided with curved cone holders 13, in each one of the upper row of which, a paper cone to be bottomed is placed. The inner wall of each of these carriers is provided with a transverse slot 14 to permit the entrance of the curved end of a discharge rod 15 at the point of travel where the cones are to be discharged. The purpose of the rod 15 is to unseatand positively discharge the paper cone from its carrier. The rod 15 is mounted on a block which is swingingly mounted on the shaft 1.1 whereby the rod 15 may move a limited distance with the cone carrier 13. A weighted arm 16 secured to the opposite side of the block will return the block and arm 15 to a normal position.

As each truncated conical bottle side 16 is dropped from the carrier 9 it is caught by a receptacle 17, here shown as formed from sheet-metal, bent as shown in end view in Fig. 2. This receptacle 17 is opposite one of the truncated conical holders 18 of the wheel 2. The next operation is to seat the paper bottle sides 16 in the adjacent receptacle 18. This is accomplished by ,a reciprocating seating-plunger or head 19, mounted on a plunger-rod 20 supported from the frame A by standards 21 (see Fig. 17). The rod 20 is connected by a yoke 22 with a lever pivoted at 24 to a bracket 25 from the frame A. The lower end of the lever 23 terminates with a pin which enters a cam-shaft in the wheel 26 on the shaft 3. This construction imparts a reciprocatory movement to the rod 20 and head 19, and by the contact of the latter with the cone in the receptacle 17 the cone will be pushed smallend-first into the receptacle 18 of the wheel 2. As the cones are frequently made out of paper of different thicknesses, there will be a corresponding variation of distance into the receptacle 18 to which the cones must be forced to secure a tight fit, and this necessitates an adjustment of the point of attachment of the yoke 22 to the shaft 20. It is also desirable to provide automatic means for discontinuing the gluing and bottom supplying operations should any failure occur in the supply of the cones 16 the receptacle 17. We therefore provide a spirally wound spring 27, which is wrapped around the rod 20 between the yoke 22 and a pair of lock-nuts 28. We preferably slip a threaded sleeve 29 upon the rod 20, securing it to the rod by any suitable means, and on this sleeve we provide the lock-nuts 28 and also the lock-nuts 30, on the opposite side of the cross-head of the yoke from the nuts 28. By adjusting the position of the lock-nuts 28 and 30 the longitudinal movement of the rod 20 may be varied. The cross-head of the yoke has a sliding fit on the rod 20.

Mounted on the sleeve 29 between the locknuts 28 and the head 19 is a pair of locknuts 31, which nuts are adapted to contact with a lever 32 only on occasion when, the cause of the absence of a cone 16 to be seated, the rod 20 is permitted to travel enough farther to bring the nuts 31 into operative contact with the lever. The lever 32 is pivoted at 33, as shown in Fig. 17, and its lower end is connected by a link 34 with a longitudinally movable dog The dog is normally held in its inner or housed position by the action of a spring 36, and is forced out by contact of the nuts 31 with the lever 32.

Mounted above and parallel with the main shaft 3, is a shaft 37 which is driven from shaft 3 by the gears 38 and 39. Mounted on the shaft 37 is a cone-seating trip-disk 40 (see Figs. 6, 7, 11, 12 and 13) having a lever 41 pivoted in its periphery and adapted to be swung from a projecting position on the side of the disk adjacent to the dog 35, to a projecting position on the other side of the disk, where it will contact with a clutchlever 42, and uncouple its clutch-half from a clutchhalf on the end of a long sleeve 43 mounted on the shaft 3. Mounted on the other end of the sleeve 43 is a bevel cogwheel 44 which meshes with a like wheel 45 on a vertical shaft 46 through which power to operate the gluing device is transmitted. Consequently, when the sleeve 43 is uncoupled by a throw of the lever 42, the gluing device will become inoperative.

The lever 41 in the periphery of disk 40 is projected normally toward the dog 35 by a spring 47, and rolling against that side of the disk 40 is a roller 48 on the end of a lever 49, which lever is pivoted at its opposite end to the frame of the machine. This lever 49 has a projecting arm 50 which is pressed by a spring 51 to hold the roller 48 in contact with the side of the disk except when forced away at each revolution of the disk by the projecting lever 41. But when the dog 35 is projected by the contact of nuts 31 against the lever 32, as previously described, it enters the path of the arm 50 of lever 49, thereby forcing the lever 41 to the other side of the disk where it will be locked by the engagement of a spring-catch 52, carried by the lever 41 in a detent on the body of the disk. The detent will preferably be made in a plate of hardened steel 53,

set into the disk, to insure longer wear. The lever 41, thus projected by the action of the dog 35, in advance of the roller 54 on the clutch-lever 42, is in position to shift the lever 42 and open the clutch coupling when the projection reaches the said roller 54.'

The clutch-coupling is of a peculiar construction, illustrated in Fig. 10, wherein a single lug 55 will make coupling engagement at only one point during a complete revolution of the shaft 3, thus keeping the sleeve 43 uncoupled for a determinate period which is timed to correspond with the movement of the wheel 2 one-sixteenth of a complete revolution, or from one cone station to the next. The clutch-half moved by lever 42 is pressed by a spring 60 into coupling contact with its mate so as to complete the coupling operation when the shape of the parts will permit.

After each uncoupling operation, above described, the lever 41 is released by withdrawing its spring-catch 52 from its holding detent, and thereupon the lever is moved to a projecting position on the other side of the disk by a spring 47. The release of the catch 52 is by the action of a wedge 57 against a pin 58 carried by the catch. The wedge 57 is pivoted to the underside of a lever 59, which in turn is pivoted to the lever 41. The free end of the lever 59 projects laterally of the lever 41 as shown in Fig. 12, whereby the roller 54, by contact with said projection, will swing the lever 59 inwardly and lower the wedge 57 against the pin 58, moving the catch-in opposition to its spring and out of said detent.

By the above described means the glue applying mechanism will become inoperative whenever, and only when, there is no paper cone 16 supplied to the receptacle 17 to be pushed into the receptacle 18 of the wheel 2. The absence of a cone allows the plunger and its rod 20 to travel farther than when a cone is there to be seated, and such further travel throws the lever 32. by pressure from the nuts 31.

The glue applying mechanism Wlll hereinafter be fully described, as will also the bottompunching, forming, and afiixlng mechanisms which follow in regular order, but, inasmuch as all of these should be 1noperative whenever there is a fallure to present a cone 16 to be bottomed, we Wlll proceed now to describe the mechanism for rendering the bottom-forming and aflixing mechanism also inoperative. ThlS mechanism is driven from the shaft 3 on which the bevel-wheel 61 is loosely mounted, and drivingly engages with a corresponding wheel 62 on a vertical shaft 63 which transmits power to the bottom-punching and aflixing mechanism. The hub of wheel 61 is formed with a. half-clutch to engage with a halfclutch-64 splined on the shaft 63, causing the half clutch to rotate with the shaft but permlttlng it to be moved longitudinally of the shaft. This longitudinal adjustment to open and close the clutch-coupling, is accomphshed by a yoke-lever 65.

The yoke-lever 65 has a roller 66 on its upper end which normally bears against the slde of a disk 67, similar to the disk 40, mounted like the disk 40, on the shaft 37. A lever 68 is pivoted to an arm 69 supported from the frame A and carries a roller 70 at 1ts upper end. The opposite or lower end of the lever 70 is extended, as shown in Fig. 6, and is'connected by a link 71 with the lower extended end of the lever 42. The levers 42 and 68 thus have a simultaneous parallel movement. The disk 67 has a swlnging lever 41 and connected mechanism like that described for the disk 40 except that it is in reverse order, and the lever 41 is adapted to project, by the action of the spring 47 normally toward the roller 70; but it will not contact with the roller 70 except when the latter is thrown into its path by the movement of the lever 42, which lever 42 has previously been set in motion by the mechanism heretofore described, through the absence of a paper cone 16 in the receptacle 17.

In practice the disks 40 and 67 are set so the lever 41 of the disk 67 will be operated about 370 later than the lever 41 of the disk 40, in order that a cone inadvance of a coming vacancy may be supplied with a bottom, although the glue supplying operation is interrupted where the vacancy occurs. To kee the gluing mechanism from getting out 0 time with the bottom-punching and aflixing mechanism while being uncoupled, we provide a brake-shoe 72 on a rod carried by the lever 68, which contacts with the wheel 44 when the lever is thrown to open the couplings. A spring on the rod gives the shoe a yielding pressure. The lever 42 is slotted lon itudinally for the attachment of the link 1 to allow for adjustment to regulate the throw of roller 70 on the upper end of the lever 68.

We will now describe the mechanism for applying glue to the inside of the paper cone 16, preparatory to the introduction of the bottom of the bottle. Power to drive this mechanism is transmitted through shaft 46 to the horizontal shaft 74 (see Fig. 20) from shaft 3 (see Fig. 4) through the automatic trip mechanism previously described. 75 is a glue-pot from which a disk 76 is supplied with glue, after which the disk 76 moves outwardly into a cone 16. The disk is smaller in diameter than that portion of the cone to be glued, and it is gyrated without rotation on its own axis, within the cone. To effectually accomplish the purpose the glue wheel is required to enter the cone 16 sufliciently remote from the cone wall to 

